[ULPIANUS libro septuagensimo primo ad edictum. ] §43.23.1.prPraetor ait: 'Quo minus illi cloacam quae ex aedibus eius in tuas pertinet, qua de agitur, purgare reficere liceat, uim fieri ueto.
[ULPIAN, from the seventy-first book on the edict.] The praetor says: 'I forbid force to be used to prevent him from being allowed to clean and repair the sewer in question, which extends from his house into yours.
damni infecti, quod operis uitio factum sit, caueri iubebo'. §43.23.1.1Sub hoc titulo duo interdicta praetor subiecit, unum prohibitorium, alterum restitutorium: et primum prohibitorium.
I will order security to be given for threatened damage that may occur through a defect in the work.' Under this title, the praetor has subjoined two interdicts, one prohibitory and the other restitutory; and the first is prohibitory.
§43.23.1.2Curauit autem praetor per haec interdicta, ut cloacae et purgentur et reficiantur, quorum utrumque et ad salubritatem ciuitatium et ad tutelam pertinet: nam et caelum pestilens et ruinas minantur immunditiae cloacarum, si non reficiantur.
Now the praetor has provided by these interdicts that sewers should be both cleaned and repaired, both of which relate both to the health of cities and to the preservation of buildings; for the filth of sewers, if they are not repaired, threatens both a pestilential atmosphere and ruins.
§43.23.1.3Hoc autem interdictum propositum est de cloacis priuatis: publicae enim cloacae publicam curam merentur.
Moreover, this interdict is proposed concerning private sewers; for public sewers merit public care.
§43.23.1.4Cloaca autem est locus cauus, per quem colluuies quaedam fluat.
Now a sewer is a hollow place through which some filth flows.
§43.23.1.5Hoc interdictum, quod primum proponitur, prohibitorium est, quo prohibetur uicinus uim facere, quo minus cloaca purgetur et reficiatur.
This interdict, which is proposed first, is prohibitory, by which a neighbor is forbidden to use force to prevent a sewer from being cleaned and repaired.
§43.23.1.6Cloacae appellatione et tubus et fistula continetur.
Under the name of "sewer", both a wide pipe and a narrow pipe are included.
§43.23.1.7Quia autem cloacarum refectio et purgatio ad publicam utilitatem spectare uidetur, idcirco placuit non esse in interdicto addendum 'quod non ui non clam non precario ab illo usus', ut, etiamsi quis talem usum habuerit, tamen non prohibeatur uolens cloacam reficere uel purgare.
Moreover, because the repair and cleaning of sewers seem to look to public utility, it was therefore decided that there should not be added to the interdict the clause 'which you have used, not by force, not by stealth, not by permission from him', so that even if anyone has had such a use, he may still not be prevented if he wishes to repair or clean the sewer.
§43.23.1.8Deinde ait praetor 'quae ex aedibus eius in tuas pertinet'.
Next the praetor says "which extends from his house into yours".
aedes hic accipere debes pro omni aedificio, hoc est ex aedificio eius in tuum aedificium.
You ought here to understand "house" (aedes) as standing for any building (aedificium), that is, from his building into your building.
hoc amplius Labeo putabat hoc interdicto locum esse et si area ab utralibet parte aedium sit et si forte, inquit, cloaca ducta sit ex urbano aedificio in proximum agrum.
In addition to this, Labeo thought that there was room for this interdict even if there were an open space on either side of the house, and even if, as he says, the sewer happened to be led from an urban building into an adjacent field.
§43.23.1.9Idem Labeo etiam eum, qui priuatam cloacam in publicam immittere uelit, tuendum, ne ei uis fiat.
The same Labeo also thinks that he who wishes to discharge a private sewer into a public one should be protected, lest force be used against him.
sed et si quis uelit talem cloacam facere, ut exitum habeat in publicam cloacam, non esse eum impediendum Pomponius scribit.
But even if anyone wishes to construct such a sewer as to have an outlet into a public sewer, Pomponius writes that he should not be hindered.
§43.23.1.10Quod ait praetor 'pertinet' hoc significat, quod ex aedibus eius in tuas pertinet, hoc est 'derigitur, extenditur, peruenit'.
What the praetor says, "extends" (pertinet), means this: what extends from his house into yours, that is, "is directed, is stretched out, arrives".
§43.23.1.11Et tam ad proximum uicinum hoc interdictum pertinet quam aduersus ulteriores, per quorum aedes cloaca currit.
And this interdict applies as much to the nearest neighbor as against more remote ones through whose houses the sewer runs.
§43.23.1.12Unde Fabius Mela scribit competere hoc interdictum, ut in uicini aedes ueniat et rescindat pauimenta purgandae cloacae gratia.
Hence Fabius Mela writes that this interdict applies so that he may enter a neighbor's house and break up the pavements for the sake of cleaning the sewer.
uerendum tamen esse Pomponius scribit, ne eo casu damni infecti stipulatio committatur.
However, Pomponius writes that one must fear lest in that case the stipulation for threatened damage (stipulatio damni infecti) be forfeited.
sed haec stipulatio non committitur, si paratus sit restaurare id, quod ex necessitate reficiendae cloacae causa resciderat.
But this stipulation is not forfeited if he is ready to restore that which he had broken up out of necessity for the sake of repairing the sewer.
§43.23.1.13Si quis purganti mihi cloacam uel reficienti opus nouum nuntiauerit, rectissime dicetur contempta nuntiatione me posse reficere id quod institueram.
If anyone serves notice of a new work on me while I am cleaning or repairing a sewer, it will be most correctly said that, ignoring the notice, I can repair what I had begun.
§43.23.1.14Sed et damni infecti cautionem pollicetur, si quid operis uitio factum est: nam sicuti reficere cloacas et purgare permittendum fuit, ita dicendum, ne damnum aedibus alienis detur.
But he also promises security against threatened damage if any occurs through a defect in the work; for just as it was necessary to permit the repair and cleaning of sewers, so it must be said that damage should not be caused to another's buildings.
§43.23.1.15Deinde ait praetor: 'Quod in cloaca publica factum siue ea immissum habes, quo usus eius deterior sit fiat, restituas.
Next the praetor says: 'What you have done in a public sewer, or have discharged into it, whereby its use is or may be rendered worse, you must restore.
item ne quid fiat immittaturue, interdicam'. §43.23.1.16Hoc interdictum ad publicas cloacas pertinet, ne quid ad cloacam immittas neue facias, quo usus deterior sit neue fiat.
I will likewise issue an interdict lest anything be done or discharged.' This interdict relates to public sewers, so that you may not discharge anything into the sewer or do anything whereby its use is or may be rendered worse.